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UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

ROBERT F. JACKSON AND WILLIAM R. IOPE, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of LettersPatent No. 380,261, dated March 27,1888.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ROBERT F. JACKSON and WILLIAM R. Porn, of Baltimorecity, in the State of Maryland, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Electric Vapor- Baths, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of the present invention is to provide an improved electricvapor-bath in which the electric current from either a Faradic coil orfrom a galvanic battery, or both, can be applied to the human system forthe treatment of diseases.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts, ashereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figurel is a perspective view, with the front removed and partly insection,of our improvement. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 isa plan view of the switch, partly broken away. Fig.4 is a plan View ofan electrode for clamping on the body.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a cabinet or closet for the.reception of the patient, and provided with a front door (not shown) anda removable top board, B, having a semicircular recess in its edge,which, in connection with a similar recess in the permanent top board,O, forms an opening for the reception of the neck of the patient.

Eisa hinged cover or lid for closing the cabinet when not in use. Theinterior of the cabinet is to be provided, as usual, with a lining ofsuitable composition or substance, so as to render the same vapor andair proof. In the bottom of the cabinet is arranged the furnace F,having a top opening for the reception of the vessel G, for containing amedicated liquid for vaporization.

Immediately above the furnace is arranged the "seat or stool H. The seatproper is dished or made concave, and is secured to a shank projectingdownward and adj ustably secured in a tubular'base by a set-screw. Theseat proper is insulated from the shank by means of hard rubber or otherinsulating material, and is dished or made concave, so that it maycontain a liquid for thetreatment of piles.

I is a closet projecting into the cabinet A and closed by a door, whichis flush with the side of the cabinet. The closet is divided into twocompartments, and in the upper compart- Application filed October 13,1887. Serial No. 252,276. (No model.)

ment is placed the Faradic apparatus J, conb and adapted to be turned torest upon the bars a a, respectively. The switch M is composed of theboard M having projections M, and the switch-lever M On the inside ofthe cabinet A, next to the closet I, are arranged the foot-rests N N.The foot-rests N N are each adjustably secured to the supporting-rods OO by set-screws, so that they can be independently adjusted as may bedesired. The supporting-rods O O are secured to the closet I and to thebottom of the cabinet. 7

On the side of the cabinet back of the seat H is arranged the slidingrod P, carrying an electrode,-P', for treating the back of the patient.The rod P slides in bearings on the inside of the cabinet, and its upperend is bent outward and passed through an opening in the cabinet, sothat the said rod can be conveniently operated from the outside.

Conducting-wires Q Q Q are arranged on the inside of the cabinet, andare connected at one end to the plates b of the switch L, and

have their other ends connected by the wires d d d to the seat H, theelectrode 1?, and the foot-rest N, respectively.

It is a body-electrode, consisting of an ap- I proximately U-shapedspring, e, carrying electrodes proper, f, and binding-posts g on itsends. One of the arms carrying the electrode and binding-post is shownas being provided with insulated material in the aperture through whichthe shank of the electrode passes. The electrode B, when in use, isclamped upon the body of the patient by the elasticity of the spring,and is connected to one of the bars 12 of the switch L by the wire h.The electrodes f and 1? may be of any improved construction.

By adjusting the switch lever M of the switch M the strength of thecurrent from the galvanic batteries can be regulated.

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The operation is as follows: If a current is to be sent from thegalvanic battery through a patient seated on the seat H, with his feeton the foot-rests N N, two of the switch-levers 0' will be turned inopposite directions, so as to rest upon the bars a, as shown in dottedlines, Fig. 3, when the current will pass from the battery through theswitches M L, through the wire Q to the seat H, through the patient tothe foot-rests, from the foot-rests through the wire Q to the switch L,to the switch M, and back to the battery. Now, if it is desired to senda current from the Faradic coil at the same time through the patientbeing treated, two of the switch-levers 0 will be turned in oppositedirections, so as to rest upon the bars a, as shown in dotted lines inFig. 3, when the current will pass from the Faradic coil to the switchL, through the wire Q to electrode P, through the patient to thebody-electrode B, through the wire h to the switch L, and back again tothe coil. While we have described the two currents when employed at thesame time as passing through different electrodes to the patient, yet itis evident that they may be sent through the same electrode; and whilewe have only described the galvanic current as passing through thepatient by means of the seat and foot electrodes and the Faradic currentby means of the back and body electrode, yet either current can be sentthrough the patient by means of any two of the electrodes. It will thusbe seen that by operating the switch-lever c c of the switch L a currentfrom either the Faradic coil or from the galvanic battery, or from both,may be applied to the patient being treated, as may be desired.

It will also be seen that by our construction we produce a cheap andcompact apparatus.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1, In an electric vapor-bath, the combination, with a Faradic coil and agalvanic battery or batteries, of a switch or switches for conveying acurrent from either or both to the patient being treated, substantiallyas herein shown and described.

2. In an electric vapor-bath, the combination, with a Faradio coil and agalvanic battery or batteries, of the switch L, connected to the Faradiccoil, and the switch M, connected with the galvanic battery or batteriesand to the switch L, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. In a vapor electric bath, the combination, with a cabinet, A, of thecloset I, projecting into the cabinet, divided into two compartments,and provided with a door, substantially as shown and described.

4. In an electric vapor-bath, the combination, with the cabinet A,provided with theinwardly-projecting closet I, of the rods 0 O, securedto the closet and to the bottom of the cabinet, and the foot-rests N N,adj ustably secured to the said rods, substantially as herein shown anddescribed.

5. In an electric vapor-bath, the seat or stool H, having its uppersurface dished or made concave, substantially as herein shown anddescribed.

6. A bodyelectrode consisting of an approximately U -shaped springcarrying an electrode and a binding-post at each end, substantially asherein shown and described.

ROBERT F. J AGKSON. WILLIAM R. POPE.

Witnesses:

J. FRANK ELINE, SAML. H. J AOKSON.

